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Dr. Steven Cooke
It’s a deeply alarming statistic: In the last 40 years, our planet has experienced an 83% decline in freshwater aquatic life. Scientists are sounding the alarm, and saying it’s urgent to act now, before we pass the point of no return. One of those scientists is Dr. Steven Cooke (above), who teaches fish ecology and conservation at Carleton University, and runs the Cooke Lab. Cooke is one of a handful of international representatives selected to develop a freshwater action plan, designed to reverse the worldwide decline in freshwater biodiversity. In this episode of Blue Fish Radio, producer/host Lawrence Gunther talks to Cooke about the six-step program being proposed to ensure the planet’s freshwater biodiversity and, hopefully, reverse this 40-year decline.
Watersheds Canada, which helps communities and shoreline owners enhance and protect the health of lakes and rivers, has taken on a huge project: rehabilitating the mighty Bay of Quinte’s long shoreline, and its related watershed. Working with Quinte Conservation, the three-year goal of this program is to naturalize the shoreline of farms, parks, cottages and homes, by planting native trees, shrubs, groundcovers, wildflowers, and grasses along the water’s edge.
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Listen below to hear Blue Fish Radio producer/host Lawrence Gunther in conversation with Chloe Lajoie, of Watersheds Canada, and Maya Navrot, with Quinte Conservation, as they discuss this program, and what it means for the Bay of Quinte and its fishery.
In the latest edition of Blue Fish Radio’s “Giants of the Fishing Industry” series, producer/host Lawrence Gunther talks to Italo Labignan (above), long-time host of TV’s
Canadian Sportfishing. Over his 35 years on the air, Italo has made no secret of his spiritual reverence for fish and fishing. In this conversation, Lawrence and Italo explore how far connections like this go back in time, and why they continue to be relevant today.
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See some of Italo’s favourite Canadian fishing spots, as revealed in
Outdoor Canada’s 2020 “Celebrity Hot Spots” story at www.outdoorcanada.ca/CanadianSportfishingHotSpots.
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Blue Fish Radio producer/host Lawrence Gunther (right) with a St. Lawrence River muskie
In the mid-2000s, St. Lawrence River muskies were hit hard by a virus that killed many of the large breeding fish, and now it may be happening again.
Dr John Farrell and PhD candidate Anna Conklyn from the Thousand Islands Biological Station are part of a research initiative exploring the link between a new virus carried by invasive round gobies, and its apparent impact on muskies in areas of the St. Lawrence River
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Listen below to hear Blue Fish Radio producer/host Lawrence Gunther in conversation with muskie researchers Farrell (above left) and Conklyn (above right), as they discuss the situation, and what can be done to protect the river’s magnificent muskies.